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NORTHERN NEWS, FEBRUARY 20, 2013
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Britney's a big softie
Home needed: Britney dreams of better things perhaps.
Britney defies her breed
stereotype and deserves
a good home, Bay of
Islands SPCA animal
welfare inspector Kaye
Vezey says.
Britney lived at
Ngawha Prison for a few
months where she
became part of the com-
munity and was adored
by everyone. When the
prisoner she was
assigned to went home,
Britney went to . . .
prison, as the SPCA
shelter seemed to her.
She did her best to
impress potential owners
with her friendly wel-
come but everyone
turned their backs. Dog
after dog was chosen but
Britney remained.
In the new year she
was placed in a foster
home where she has
proven herself to be a
sheep in wolf s clothing,
Kaye says.
Trustworthy, obedi-
ent, playful and affec-
tionate, Britney is great
with dogs and people
including kids and
strangers. She is a hope-
less guard dog. Although
only three years old she
has an old soul energy
with a happy-go-lucky
fit-in-anywhere person-
ality.
Britney is speyed, vac-
cinated, microchipped
and will be registered.
Her adoption fee is $150
and her new home must
be securely fenced and
approved by the SPCA.
To find out more,
contact SPCA inspector
Kaye Vezey on
027 2280 467.
Photos reveal
Hokianga in the
1930s and 40s
Aerial photographs of
the Hokianga in the
1930s and 1940s are on
display at the Hokianga
Museum in Waianga
Place, Omapere.
The collection of 13
large black-and-white
photographs is the work
of V C Browne, who with
his bulky, heavyweight
1930s camera supported
on his knee, captured the
harbour and its labyrin-
thine inlets, its settle-
ments and forest clear-
ings, its rugged hills and
hidden ravines, its start-
lingly white sand --
whiter than today -- and
its tiny, tenuous ribbons
of road that have since
become Hokianga s
arteries.
Few people are fam-
iliar with these photo-
graphs. They form part
of an extensive collection
that Victor Carlyle
Browne assembled over a
lifetime of photography,
both on-ground and from
the air. It is for the aerial
views in particular that
his work claims historic
importance.
Browne was born in
Wellsford in 1900. His
interest in photography
dates from his schoolboy
years when he bought
his first plate camera.
Following the death of
his father in a logging
accident, Browne moved
to Christchurch where
he began to photograph
with a passion. On one of
many flights over the
Southern Alps, he picked
up on what was known
as the pounamu
(greenstone) trail, lead-
ing to a lake that hith-
erto was unmarked on
any map.
His most ambitious
plan, to photograph the
entire country from the
air, came about when he
and Captain A J Brad-
shaw flew over the whole
of New Zealand from
Stewart Island to North
Cape in a small aircraft.
The resulting collection
was published in the now
out-of-print New Zea-
land from the Air -- the
first publication of its
kind.
Browne made several
trips to Northland
especially to photograph
the Hokianga, and it is
these enlargements that
are now on display at the
Hokianga Museum.
This is an opportunity
to see the Hokianga as it
once was. The museum is
open daily except
Sundays, 10am to 2pm,
and the exhibition will
run until March 19.
Phone 405 8498, or go to
ourhokianga.com.
Get a taste of Hoki-
anga hospitality at
Brumbies Alive on
March 2 at Rawene
Domain with brumbie
horse racing, wood chop-
ping, food stalls, kids
activities and music.
Organiser Rob Pink
says: This is Hokianga
Brumbie Horse Racing at
its Best.
Admission is $5 for
adults, under-15s free.